This book provides a critical account, a state-of-the-art review, as well as novel research methods of information technology development and the corresponding changes of socio-economic spatial organization in China.
With the rapid development of the Internet over the past three decades, the development of information technology and its impact on social economy have become an important frontier issue of human and economic geography. Actually, the influence of information technology is complex and dynamic, involving almost all aspects of socio-economic activities and our daily life. It is also influencing the methods and disciplines that we use to understand it. In general, industrial development and regional management and innovation are the core contents of socio-economic spatial organization. Therefore, changes in industrial clusters, transportation logistics, regional development and innovation, urban planning and management, and rural development under the background of the information age were analysed to understand the relationship among information revolution, socio-economic spatial organization, and human and economic geography.
Primarily intended for scholars and graduate students across a range of disciplines, such as geography, urban-rural planning, information science, urban science, economics and sociology, and people engaged in regional planning, urban management and information management, this book proves to be an innovative and up-to-date resource.
Tabella dei contenuti
The new impetus and changes of socio economic spatial organization.- Innovation of spatial thinking and research methods.- Spatial agglomeration and diffusion of social economy.- Industrial clusters and its spatial restructuring in the information age.- Internet technology and the restructuring of transportation logistics network.
Circa l’autore
LU Dadao is a well-known economic geographer, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was born in October of 1940 in Tongcheng County of Anhui Province and graduated from Geology and Geography Department of Peking University in 1963. He has visited the former Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s and 1990s as a visiting scholar, cooperative researcher, and visiting professor. He was the director of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, and is the researcher of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, and Honorary chairman of the Geographical Society of China.
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